In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 23
It fills me, that cry, with a strange curiosity not less than with a strange horror,—because of certain extraordinary vowellings in it which always recur in the same order of sequence, and must represent particular forms of animal speech,—particular ideas.
Who acts: cry · What happens: fill, recur, represent, order, form · To what, where: me, certain extraordinary vowellings, same order, particular forms, sequence, animal speech
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fills | nsubj |
| 2 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fills | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cry | punct |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 cry | det |
| 6 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fills | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 curiosity | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 curiosity | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 curiosity | det |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 curiosity | amod |
| 11 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fills | parataxis |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 less | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 curiosity | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 horror | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 horror | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 horror | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 horror | amod |
| 18 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 curiosity | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vowellings | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 vowellings | punct |
| 21 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 25 vowellings | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 because | fixed |
| 23 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 vowellings | amod |
| 24 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 vowellings | amod |
| 25 | vowellings | vowelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 horror | appos |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 vowellings | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 recur | obj |
| 29 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 30 recur | advmod |
| 30 | recur | recur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 vowellings | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 order | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 order | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 order | amod |
| 34 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 recur | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sequence | case |
| 36 | sequence | sequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 order | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 represent | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 represent | cc |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 represent | aux |
| 40 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 fills | parataxis |
| 41 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 forms | amod |
| 42 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 represent | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 speech | case |
| 44 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 speech | compound |
| 45 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 forms | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 ideas | punct |
| 47 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 ideas | punct |
| 48 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ideas | amod |
| 49 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 forms | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | cry | me | that cry obl; a strange curiosity than a strange horror parataxis | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | recur | present | certain extraordinary vowellings in horror | the same order of sequence | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | represent | must | particular forms of animal speech and particular ideas | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot form=Theme | |||||
| 4 | order | sequence | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | form | animal speech | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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